[X2go-dev] OT: X2Go desktop distribution choices
John A. Sullivan III
jsullivan at opensourcedevel.com
Tue Jan 5 18:35:36 CET 2010
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 09:30 +0100, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
> John A. Sullivan III schreef:
> > Hello, all. We have been struggling over whether we wanted to offer
> > Ubuntu or Fedora desktops to our users via X2Go. However, as we
> > struggle in that debate, we are unexpectedly beginning to entertain the
> > idea of using Debian instead.
>
> I think that's a good idea. There is much more experience with Debian
> then with Fedora. And about Ubuntu I would say to try this:
>
> aptitude search '?and(~s universe,~i)'
>
> ... and you will see you are using many packages without security
> support. I think that's maybe sometimes OK, but not for a thinclient server.
>
> > May I ask what your experiences have been?
>
> I have some years experiences with Debian thinclients in small
> organisations, and I can tell you it works fine. I have used FreeNX
> (with ThinStation) and now a little bit X2go.
>
> Biggest problem was always flash, the quality of flash in a bigger
> format is not good enough in my opinion and it can slow-down a user session.
>
> Another point is to connect devices to clients. That's not always easy.
>
> > What are your preferred desktop clients and why? If Debian, is it
> > stable + backports or testing?
>
> I have experiences with Debian stable and oldstable. I have heard X2go
> works fine with testing. I use sometimes backports, e.g. for OpenOffice.
>
> Always running testing is not a good idea in my opinion, it changes to
> much. But you can do it for a short time.
>
> > We are looking at supporting potentially many thousands of these
> > desktops. Thanks - John
>
> With regards,
> Paul van der Vlis.
>
>
>
>
Thanks, Paul. Do you or others have experience mixing stable +
backports with testing using pinning? I've heard some say that is the
best of all worlds and others say it is a terrible idea because testing
pulls in new libraries which can badly break packages in stable. Thanks
- John
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